Hello again! Newbie coder here, once more with some requested help. I am trying to pass a referenced AnimationPlayer from my Player.gd class to a StateMachine, but whenever I do, it says that the animation_player is null! I figure it has something to do with the loading order, but I also do like talking to you folks more than google searching stack overflow so I figured I'd ask.

I've attached an image with what I believe to be all the relevant information, if we need the Node hierarchy, I can attach that as well.